R Observatory: Metrics for disttools version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

disttools

0.1.8Package record

Distance Object Manipulation Tools

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zachary ColburnCRAN page ↗Declared funder: Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation

Provides convenient methods for accessing the data in 'dist' objects with minimal memory and computational overhead. 'disttools' can be used to extract the distance between any pair or combination of points encoded by a 'dist' object using only the indices of those points. This is an improvement over existing functionality, which requires either coercing a 'dist' object into a matrix or calculating the one dimensional index corresponding to a pair of observations. Coercion to a matrix is undesirable because doing so doubles the amount of memory required for storage. In contrast, there is no inherent downside to the latter solution. However, in part due to several edge cases, correctly and efficiently implementing such a solution can be challenging. 'disttools' abstracts away these challenges and provides a simple interface to access the data in a 'dist' object using the latter approach.

Changes in 0.1.8

Updated argument checks to handle a change in a dependency.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("disttools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-disttools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-disttools

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-disttools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 55 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.8

READMEYes · 241 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

disttools HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,620 · ~8/day · ~229/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25130 days

73390 days

2.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing disttools adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Zachary Colburn

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.7 (2019)

Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation

Copyright holder, Funder

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-04
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("disttools")

Format

Colburn, Z., & Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation. (2022). disttools: Distance Object Manipulation Tools (Version 0.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.disttools

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for disttools version 0.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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